View of skyline from Liberty Island (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Two weeks ago, I photographed the Statue of Liberty on assignment. It was a two-day shoot focused on improvements made to visitor circulation inside the statue’s pedestal, and various other infrastructural upgrades that will be mostly invisible to the public. Liberty Island was a […]

Bond Street — © Brian Rose Houston Street — © Brian Rose 11th Avenue in Chelsea — © Brian Rose Sixth Avenue and 16th Street — © Brian Rose Random coming and going around Manhattan. Would a real New Yorker step foot in Houston Hall? No.    

San Francisco courtyard — © Brian Rose A brief trip to San Francisco for my sister’s wedding. Her new husband is Andrew Barnett, the noted coffee expert who, soon, is opening a cafe in the Mission. Cathy and Andrew were married in City Hall just as the first same-sex weddings began after last weeks’s historic […]

Inside the crown — © Any Warren Temporarily took down my Statue of Liberty photos, but hope to have them up again soon. They look great, and I had a wonderful two days in and around the monument. Sorry for the interruption. Stay tuned. Brian

Kent Avenue — © Brian Rose Bedford Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Join me for the opening of The Yard, a new co-working space on the Lower East Side. I will be showing a large portion of the work exhibited in March at Dillon Gallery. If you missed the show at Dillon, this is your second chance. The 4×5 foot prints look spectacular. I’ll be there with […]

Trapeze School, Pier 40 — © Brian Rose Yesterday, I took my view camera to Pier 40, the former passenger ship dock at the western end of Houston Street. The pier is now being used as a sports facility, and I’ve been there many times for my son’s baseball games. On the roof of the […]

Orchard Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Step Down, Cooper Union, with student leader Victoria Sobel seated on floor © Brian Rose Art school, protest, and how I got to Cooper Union Before transferring to Cooper Union in 1977 I was attending MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art). It was an expensive private art school — tuition is now just over $39,000 […]

East River and Brooklyn Navy Yard — © Brian Rose Now that I am no longer using the 4×5 for architectural shoots — it’s hard to believe that era is over — I have switched completely to a field view camera for my personal projects. I’m using an inexpensive Toyo made largely of plastic (blech) […]

Fillmore Place and Roebling — © Brian Rose Grand Street — © Brian Rose Havemeyer Street — © Brian Rose Random images in Williamsburg, Brooklyn    

Time and Space on display at the Tenement Museum Store — © Brian Rose It has been one year since Time and Space on the Lower East Side was published, and over 800 of approximately 1,100 books have been sold — well on the way to selling out. At the moment, I have no plans to go to […]

Richmond Terrace, Staten Island (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose A few weeks ago I took my view camera down to Staten Island to rephotograph a mural that I encountered last year. It’s on the side of an old factory building that now contains Gerardi’s Farmer’s Market. The central element is a depiction of three […]

Broadway — © Brian Rose Yoko Ono’s campaign against tracking.    

Spring Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Photo made 6PM, May 12, 2013, Cooper Square. © Brian Rose    

The ghost of Peter Cooper — © Brian Rose Cooper Union students have taken over President Jamshed Bharucha’s office in the Foundation Building on Cooper Square. They are demanding his resignation in response to the decision made by the board of trustees to begin charging tuition at one of America’s last free colleges. The president […]

 14th and Hudson Street, 1985 — © Brian Rose 14th and Hudson Street, 2013 — © Brian Rose A few months ago I posted some of my photographs of the Meatpacking District taken in 1985. At that time, the area was desolate by day–the city seemingly abandoned. People have been clamoring for me to do […]